38.62° SOUTH - Sunset

Last weekend I headed south for a few days with my new teardrop camper, just to test it out. I had no expectations of getting great conditions for photography, but yes I packed my camera gear.

Port Campbell caravan park was to be my home for 3 nights.

Sunday evening I headed to Gibson Steps when the light conditions looked promising and boy was I treated to an amazing sunset. This beach is one of the worlds great wonders, with the towering stacks of Gog & MaGog dominating the scene just off the beach. Although there were plenty of people on the beach the swell kept them mostly out of the scene and as the sun set the sky lit up. A friend next to me taking photos complained when a beach goer wandered down into the scene but I took the opportunity to capture him to give the image some scale.

I managed to get a few different compositions in both portrait and landscape. I always try to capture a scene in both formats so I have a choice if clients want to purchase an image as a fine art print.

Riders on the Storm

Yesterday afternoon I spotted this storm front coming in from the West so I quickly drove to the lookout in Anglesea to photograph the clouds as they rolled down the coast. Arriving at the lookout I realised that I was in the wrong spot AND I should have grabbed my drone!

Back in the car and back home to get the drone.

Now thats a better view from 100m up and out beyond Point Roadknight!

I took a series of of panoramas, the first a 4 shot vertical panorama and the second I decided to go BIG!!! A 39 shot panorama across 3 levels of the scene and all stitched together. 13 shots of the sky, 13 shots of the land and then 13 shots of the foreground…YEP it was time consuming but I think it was worth it.

4 Shot vertical panorama.

13 Shot, 3 level panorama. Total shots stitched together 39!